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Mt. Vernon Republican (Mount Vernon, Ohio : 1854), 1860-07-12

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fril I WIT TV M Jl o "Vol. "VI. NEABBB. One, sweetly, solemn thought. Comes to me o'er and o'er; I'm nearer to my home today Than l'vs ever been before. Nearer my father's house Where many mansions be; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the jasper 8ea. Nearer the bound of life, Where we layoUr burdens down; Nearer leaving my cross, Nearer wearing my crown. But lying darkly betweon, Winding down thro the night, ts that dim unknown stream Which leads at last to light. Father I perfect my trust, Strengthen my feeble faith; Let me leel as if I trod The shore of river death. For even now my feet May stand upon it's brink; I may be nearer my home, Nearer than I think. Neveb despaie. There's gold for the man that will dig it, And peace for the soul ef the seeker There's love's wine for him that will drink it, O'erflowing the golden lipped beaker There's Fame for the brows ol the thinker, If he'll work and struggle to win it Every care-cloud that folds o'er the future May prison rich blessings within it. There's a home for the son of gaunt sorrow, A rest for the worn out and weary, A hope for the pallid dospairing, A light o'er eash path that is dreary; There's no wave so dark but the summit Will breajt into snowy-like whiteness, There's no cloud so black in the heavens But has some rich, folded-up brightness. Tis hard to wade through the deep waters Unseeing the shore that we covet; 'Tis dismal to look for hope's rainbow When black vails of doubt hang above it. But faith's hand can lift up the mountains And give to us liches supernal-She points to the laud ot the prophets, The land of the blessed Eternal. THE BOATMAN'S bAUGHTEH. The fallowing remarkable story las al the interest of romance; yet it is true, and the parties are still living: It was the memorable year of 1814, 'when the allied armies were concentrated about Paris. A young lieutenant of dragbons was engaged with three or four Hungarians, Who, after having received several smart strokes from his sabre managed to send a ball into his shoulder, to pierce his chest with a thrust from a lance, and to leave him for dead on the bank of the river. On the opposite side of the stream, a boatman and bis daughter had been watching this unequal fight with tears of des-paration. But what could an old unarmed man do, or a pretty child of sixteen? However, the soldier for such the boatman was had no sooner seen the officer fall from bis horse, titan he and his f 'daughter rowed msst vigorously for the 'other side. Then, when they deposited the wounded man in their boat, the worthy people crossed the river again, but with faint dope's of Vetfchmg the military hospital hi tfme. "You ha'Ve been hardly treated, my boy," said the old guardsman to him; '"but her am I, who have gorie further still, and come home." The silent and fixed attitude of Lieuten ant 8 , showed the extreme agony of tis pains, and the hardy boatman soon discovered that the blood which was gathering about the wound, on his left side, would shortly terminate bis existence. lt turned to his youthful daughter: f Mary," he said, "you have heard me tell of my brother; he died of just such a Wound ns this here. Well now. had there teen only somebody to suck the hurt, his life would have been saved." The boatman then landed, and went to look for two or three soldiers to help him o carry the officer, leaving his daughter in charge of bira. The girl looked al the sufferer for a ma- taent or two. What" was her emotion when she neard him sigh so deeply, not that he was resigning life in the first flower of his age, but that he should die without a mother'! kiss. 'My mtttherl my dear mother!" said he; 'I din Stboit ' . Her woman's heart told bet 'what be would have said. Her bosom heaved with sympathy, and bet eyen tan over. Then she remembered what her father said; she thought how ber Ancle's life might have been saved. In an instant, quicker than thought, she tore open the officer's coat, and the gent ous girl recalled him to life with her lips. Amid this holy occupation the sound of footsteps was heard, and the blushing heroine fled to the other end of the boat. Judge of her fathers surprise, at be came up with two soldrers, when be saw Lieulen ant 8-, whom he expected to find dead, open his eyes, and. ask for his deliverer. The boatman looked at his child and saw it -all. i The poor girl oamo to biro i with her head bent down. She waa abou l to excuse herself, when her father, embrao iotr ber with entbueialto, Wised ber spirits, aud the officer thanled her in these proph etic words 'You hare saved my life; it belongs to you." After this she tended him, and became his nurse; nothing would be taken but from her hand. No wonder that with such a nurse he at length recovered. Mary was as pretty as she was good. Meanwhile Master Cupid, who is very busy in such cases, gave him another wound; and there was only one way to cure it, so very deep it was. The boatman's daughter became Madame S . Her husband is now, not a simple lieu tenant, but a lieutenant-general, and the boatman's daughter is as elegant and grace. ful a lady as any that you see at court. The Japanese Princes hare At last been inveigled into a church. The Church was Grace Church, New York, the occasion a wedding. The Express says: On Thursday, Charles Seatan, Esq., of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was married to Miss Agatha Eleanor Carnana, the only daughter of a wealthy retired Italian mer chant of this city. The five Princes of the Japanese Embas sy were present at the ceremony, In full costume, and a brilliant crowd of invited guests filled the body of the Church. The princes had expressed a Wish to see these things especially, before leaving the city a funeral, a law suit and a wedding. The funeral and a eourt of law were of 'easy accomplishment, but a redding of the first class, within the georgeous light of Grace Church, and managed by Brown, does not come 'off every day, and the Embassy was in danger of going to sea without hav ing witnessed that interesting spectacle. Of course they were particularly gratified with an invitation to a ceremony where the fashion and intellect of our city were sure to- be represented, and it was re marked generally, that on no other occa sion since their sojourn among us had the Embassy exhibited so much interest, or ap peared to bo so highly pleased. Fortunately for the impression they will carry away of this one of our most impressive ceremonies the young couple were re markable for their fine personal appear ance. The bridal dress was superb as gleaming silk, clouds of lace and snowy flowers could make it; while a group of pretty bridesmaids, in piiik and blue, gave a brilliant effect to to the scene enhanced on every hand by the georgeous surround ings of the building. We believe this is the first occasion on which the Embassy has entered a place of religious worship in America, they expressed themselves surprised and delighted by the beauty of the church, and said that America was a happy country to possess such buildings, where so many beautiful ladies could be seen together. Lincoln's conscientiousness in Boyhood. We havo beard, says the Evansvilie (Ind.) Journal, the following anecdote related of the People's candidate for the Presidency, which shows the love of knowledge, the industry, the conscientiousness and the integrity of the subject of this sketch: It is well know that he lived in Spencer county, above here in Indiana, in his young (fays. He was a hard working lad, and very eager In bis thirst for knowledge. A man named Crawford owned a copy of'Weems' Life of Washington," the only one in the neighborhood. Young Lincoln borrowed that interesting book, (not having money to spare to buy one,) and while reading it, by a Blight negligence lelt it in the wmdow, when a rain storm came up and wet the book so as to ruin it. Young Lincoln lelt very badly, bat Tike an honest boy hi went to Mr. Crawford wftb. the rained book, acknowledged his accounta bility (Or its destruction, and his willingness to make (lue compensation. He said he had no mo"ey but would' work ocrt the value of the book .' Tho'&wrter'of the book said Co him, "Well, Abe, being as it's you, I on't be hard on you. If you Will come over and poll folder for two Jays, i'll let you off." Abe went over accordingly, and pulled fod der the requisite time; and so tall and handy a lad was he, that Crawford required him to pull the fodder off the tallest stocks, while he took the shortest ones himself. This story is told with much gusto by one of our prominent citizens, who ased to know Abe Lincoln in his younger days in Spencer county, and who now since the once hum- bid lad has become the 'choice of a great party for the highest office in the world; regards hirt with strong affection, and supports him with enthusiasm. The principal fact in the proceedings of the Democratic Stale Convention in Mich igan, was the insult offered Gen. Cass. The "Old Publio Functionary," was in the city of Detroit where the Convention was held, and when some one proposed that he should be invi.ed to lake a seat In the Con. vention, the. motion was contemptuously laid Upon the table; A subsequent effort to cause the Convention to offer a common courtesy to Gen. Cass, was Summarily voted down. The reason for this scornful treatment of the venerable statesman of Michigan, b the fact that he is for Breckenridge and Lane." " .,,',( mount vjzsnKroN-, Ad ournment of Corffress. Congress has adjourned after a session of nearly seven months. ' The Houso spent the first two in fruitless efforts to organize; the Democratic factions, North and South, aided by the South Americans, uniting to prevent the election of a Republican Speaker. The two months were devoted by the Southern Democracy to airing their disunion sentiments, taking the Helper Book of a Nolh Carolinian and John Brown for their texts, while the Northern Democrats cheered them on in their treasonable course and gave .them the "material aid" of their votes in protracting the disorganization they unblushingly threatened to make revolutionary. The Republicans, being in a minority, listened as patiently as possible to the disunion tirades, steadily voting against the traitors and their (reason. The President and his Cabinet, knowing full well that the eleotion of a Republican Speaker and the appointment of Republican committees would lay bre corruptions of high officials such as would make Pennsylvania' Avenue from the White Houso to the Capitol a stench in the nostrils rf the People, also resisted such an organization of the House with every possible appliance of place and power. The right at last triumpneo. over me rresiaeni sna ins satraps, and the sceptro of Speaker was: wrested from the disuntomsts. Fair committees were appointed, and the work of needed legislation, so long factibUsly delayed, was commenced and pushed forward in earnest. We will briefly refer to some of the more important legislation of the House of Representatives under Republican leadership. A bill for the admission o' Kansas under the Constitution framed by the people of the long harrass'ed Territory, was passed and sent to tlie Senate, and wickedly defeated by that Democratic body. A Homestead bill of trdly liberal and beneficent provisions a god-send to the honest laborers whether native or adopted, heads of families or young men, and to the country in breaking up the western wilderness and transforming it iiitd fruitful fields was passed by the House and metamorphosed by the Slave Democracy of the Senate into a mere land graduation measure. After three Committees of Conference, the Republicans succeeded in extorting from the Senate majority a Homestead "half loaf," when the President in his hatred of Free labor and Free Homes for the Homeless, killed the bill by the abuse of a constitutional perogative such J as would have cost any European mon- areli the crown and sceptre, then a tariff bill, absolutely demanded by a bankrupt Treasury and the depresed interests of the manufacturing and free labor States, was passed by the House and postponed by the Free f rad'e "lords of'the lash" and their doughface Northern al ies in the Senate. Bills were reported by the Republican committee on Territories in the House to organize the new Territories of the West, and place them within the protection of such governments and laws as Would aid in their rapid population and development, but the Democrats in the House, backed by South American slave allies, strangled earb. and all at their birth. The House committee made every ef fort to prepare and press to favorable ac. tidn a Pacific Riilroad bill, opening a grand Central Railway across the conti nent; but the allied Slave Democracy, urged on by a President and Cabinet with both eyes 'fixed on despoiling Mexico to extend and aggrandize human servitude, defeated all Pacific Railway progress by presistent adhi-ranco to the Southern route or nothing. The House passed a Pacific Telegraph Bill, which for a marvel found favor with the Senate majority; but perhaps it has been throttled by the Veto, or is dying in the President's pocket. A few days wi make public its fate. The iloose did not place the asked for million's of public money in the hands of the Executive to buy Cuba or male war on Mexico; but it did appoint the CoVode committee to investigate official corruption in the high and low places of the Govern ment, a duty which Was fearlessly and sue' eessfully performed, despite Presidential protests and threatened contumacy ot par tisan witnesses. The fraads on the elective franchise in Kansas and elsewhere, the duplicity and perfidy of the Executive, members of his Cabinet, and Democratic members of Congress under Government manipulations, brought to light and placed On record by the CoVbde committed, bared almost entirely on Democratic testimony, are the most flagrant and overwhelming in the history of the Republic. ' They ought, should, and will 'crush any party guilty of malfeasances and corruptions now "fixed facts'! on the Democratic Turn to the Senate labors of (be pro traded session. The Democratic majority have made the party rule potent against all usefttl legislation; the Upshot of their worths.! been id deleft the trfessuni of onio, TiixJU.saDA.Y, the popular branoh of Congress. They spent months in useless debate on a Slave Cudu pi it form for the Democracy, and that perfected, tested from their lnbors. What important measure did the demo crats in the Senate, North or South, originate and curry through? They did raise a John Brown committee expend months of time arid large sums of public money, imprison Thaddeiis Hyatt, attempt to kidnap Sanborn of Massachu- set.s, to inveigle John Brown, Jr., of Ohio and examined a multitude of witnesses, not Gov. Wis j who had the keeping of the infatuated but brave and honest Old Ossa-watomie's carpet-bag of documents, and boasted that he coiild implicate the Republican leaders and party in the Harper's Ferry raid the protracted search and research by the astute Virginia chairman re suiting id the discovery of just nothing at all oii:side of John Brown and his little band of attache 1 followers, who surprised and captured tlie strdigholdof the Old Dominion with a handful ofSharpe's rifUs, pikes, spades, crowb irs, and pickaxes! The Republicans of the Senate and House have deservedly won the approbation of their constituents and the country during the session just closed. They have been faithful to their trusts, the people, the constitution, and the Union Revolutionary Incidents. The hero of the following thrilling story was embodied in the person of a stout blacksmith, but in bis frame, hardened with toil, throbbed as generous an impulse of freedom as ever heat in the bosom of La Fayefe, or around the heart of Mad Anthony Wbj ne. It was h full tide ol the retreat that a follower of the American camp, who had at bast shouldered a cart-whip iu his country's service, was hauling a baggage wagon from the Geld of tialile, while some short distance behind, a body of Continentals were pushing forward with a body of British in pursuit. The wagon had ai lived at a harrow point of tlie by-road leading to the south, where two high banks of rocks and crags sufficient for the passage of the baggage wagons and not an inch more. His eyes were arrested by a stou t, mus cular man, apparently about forty years of age, extended ftt the foot of a tree at the vei-y opening of the pass. He T7as clad in the coarse entire of a mechanic. His coat had been thrown a.-.itle, and with his sleeves rolled up from his muscular arm, he lay eitended on the turf, with his rifle id his grasp; whilu the blood poured in a tdrreut frdm bis tight leg; which was bro-at the knee By a cannon bull. The wagoner's sympathies were aroused at the sight. He would have paUsed in the instant of l,is flight, and placed the wounded man in tho wagon, but the stout hearted hi an relused. "I'l not go in yoiir wagon," he said in his rough way, "but I'll tell you what i ill do. Do you see yonder cherry tree on the (op of the rock that hangs over the road? Do you think yod 'can lift d man of my build up there? For y'oii see neigh bor," continued be, "I neVer meddled with the British Until they came tramping over this Valley: and burned mr house down, and now I'm all riddled to pieces and hain't got more than fifteen minutes in me; but I have three balls in my cartridge box, and so just prop me up against that tree," and I'll give the whole three shots ahd then," exclaimed the blacksmith patriot; "I'll die. The wagoner started his horses ahead and with a sudden effort dragged the wounded man along the sod to the foot of the tree. His face was to the advancing troopers, and while his shattered leg bung over the bank, the wagoner rushed on bis way, and the doomed blacksmith proceeded to coolly load his rifle. Rail Spmttiso asd Woon Cuoppino 11 appears that "Old Abe's" rail splitting is not much ahead of Gen. Joe Lane's exploits. The latter once bad a wood yard at Newburg, Ind , on the Ohio, where, it is said, he nud to cut cord wood. Steaiaboatmen ay, moreover, that the old fellow used to get on board of the steamboats which bought his wood, and while the hands were unloading his wood Dais, he would take a hand at poker, and play a good game. Tbey say "he used to be rnighty hard at poker." So, while Lane is "even" with the rail splitting arrangement, he Is "one better' on poker Cincinnati Commercial. Woman. it re is a fins prVagVtph from the Mahoning Sentinel: Never make use of art honest woman's battie in an improper place, or at an iraf roper titde, or In a mixed company. Never make assertions about her thai yoU think art untrue; allusloos that you leel she hcWelf wo'd blush to hear. When you meet with men Who do not scruple to make use of a woman's name in a reckless manner, shun them, for they are the very worst members of the community men lost to every sense of hon JULY lO, lOGO. !,..,, ,. , J i : No. OO ' . ' ' . . . T ' " ) i mmwmmmmmimmmmmmwmmmwmmmm UI"".V n i wmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmm-imm i i li nun.,t ,'. From the N'uw V'ork Oritur, i, ludiiendent. ) The fall of the Democratic Party. The past we k hns bi'n signal ted by tlie fmul division into irreconcilinMe factions, of the long unite ! and iovt-riiin' democratic party of the Ci.lti d States. j the event was foreseen, afior the failure of the Charleston Convention, and indeed and spoil. It dies because it hsa ce:tsed has been xpoR-d for many months, tho' i to represent the gieut leading principle of its leaders, rehii) on its creat pri'siiur, wi.icli at it milu it assumed to be tht-and on freduent prrb'ertenta in its i islory, rhwnpion ih tios.it ive eouali.y of man which flattered lhf hope, ti'd not despair: of being able to Wunite all iIih c(;iuuins at the last call of the drum, and to prtsen', 1 as in the old days, a formidable fmtitnt the j i . r j v , . i e .1 rfjeniiiL' of the canvas. Intend of this 1 there are now two seta of c mlidntrs in ! and happiness, have been growing in thai Geld, sworn to deadly nn.it j and the j very mind of the mniU which jo long held third may possibly he addod, Ml conipssed ( In i's t,'rasp, and l-e -use that mind ittelf of the fragments of the old Democracy, j now advances and olaims to carry out ideas When friends diff r, and fail to harmonize j of g iv. rnmcnt and social life which shall they benome the most bitter of all haters. : not lie a practical abnegation of the oriyi-This well known truth is forcibly illu-lra- j nal theory represented by the party. The ted by the mutuil denunciations of the ' vitality that animated it in its early days new divisions. has gone out of it. I thas ceased to have stipi icn A. Douglas, of Illinois, and anv bond of union between its parts, but Benjamin Finspa'rick. of Alabama, were the bond of ainbitioii and State plunder, chosen by the m.jority of the Baltimore i tn the despair of its later struggles, it Convention. The latter has -ince, declined j and Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, been substituted in liis place. This noirii-! nation represents what may b:f called for distinction, the' anti slavery wirij,' of the1 Democratic party. All iw anti-slavery ! consist! in opposition to the re openi ;g of1 the slave trade, and in denying to Congress! absolute power in enforce the local NUte ' rights of slave property in the Territories This extent of opinion in that direction is entertained in every Southern Stale, and it does not therefore make ihe party a j Northern parly The seceding portion of llm Biiljimore Convention, represents th-.-rx'reme South ern platform, including the Lccotrplon Territorial policy, and absolute protection to slavery and slave property everywhere. It is identical in tl.eory with the Richmond Conveniion, which declared, when it assembled, that it had nothing to add to or to take from the platform of the majority announced at Charleston. The candidates of this section are John C. Breckcnridge of Kentucky, and Joseph Lane of Ore- Sr" : To an impartial eye, regarding facts and all grounds of judgment in their apparent character, the defeat of the Democratic pnrty in its divisions and as a whole, is hardly less than a forgone conclusion. The Opposition, which failed in 1856 by its own distractions, is now united, confident, and full of energy. The power which has heretofore been deciding terra in our elections the patronage of the existing Government will be em ployed against the strongest wihg of the Democratic partv. and in favor of a minor branch which has no visible chanbe of success in the conflict, the country is therefore prepared to see the administra tion of the Federal Government pass into new hands'. This great event, the fall of ihe Poliif- cal Coloef us which has governed the country (essentially so) for nearly forty years, ought lb' be appreciated in its real character. It is nothing less than one of those civil revolutions which determine the fu lure destiny of nations. In other times ahd countries it would have been a revol ution of violence. : We are saved froth that by the perpetual free Vent of political passions, ahd by the Commerce; the Ar s, and the Christianity of the age. The Democratic Party came into power wiih the advent of Andrew Jaeks'-n. then, I the men of the revoluiionaiy period pas sed away. Several great questions of po' icy had grown into consequence, among which were the National Bank and the Protective system. Then was set ie action that intense popularism which, being wrought up to a high pilch, has kept the party ever since in a stale of prodigious muscular vigor and despotic ascendancy. Foreign emigration became one of its principal terms. Foreigners fought at the polls ahd were rewarded Uh the government patronage. "Rotation in office," "oppression of labor," and "pirvileged monopolies," were expressions well suited in the mouths Of damagogites to flatter the "mob;" and the mob became the makewightin the pseudo-democratic system. We are not using these terms in a party spirit, or sense, but simply reciting facts. And we do not quarrel with1 them. Looking back over the wonderful career of the Democratic Party, we are grateful to it for its servioe in demonstrating its own theory with perfect honesty and boldness. It stands alone in the history of all States. No such masterly popular development, no such long continued display of popular forces, can be found in any other extant recoVd. The perfection of its internal discipline, toe skill of its managers, the Uncompromising boldness of its theories, the wholeness of its faith in the popular mass-ess, its overwhelming rallies after defeat, its signal reparations of disasters and its long tenure of power these, and many other characteristic features, mark ft as thv- grandest iimi it. nation of pojiularism that tliu world lift' -e m 1 1 is not fiuinir iiiat such a party should KO to jjlave wi'liuiit a Ktrrnoh. I' b-ciinc drunk with iuon success, Hud odr- nifiicd by its own success, snd corrupted I by its own iMisuies of State palromge and thr imlefeaMuilily of popular rights, I aiiin-t (ho other pirty iti the country which had le's faitu in the extreme popu- lur system It dii-a because the true ele-' . i . c f ,1 !..:i I men's and terms of freedom, civilization caught at the miserable fallacy in politic and moi uls. of attempting to extend and strengthen slavery by the mere force of outward administration. It has not been able to see tlmi Shivery, like Popery, like Mohammedanism, like Republicanism, and even PiotesiHiiii ni, is in the body of the world's movement, and must abide its hie; A silo to al lei -'lust to dust.' We announced tie; death of Geo. P R James, the novelist, two days since. M . James was bom in London in 1801 When. a boy he manifested decided littrary tastes, and became an anonymous contributor to the magazines. Some of his productions having come under ihe notice of Washing ton Iivn, James was urged by him lo attempt a work of more importance. Thus tncuiaged, he produced in 1822 a life of lEdwarklhe Black Piince, the first book ! bearing his name. liis first essay ns a I novelist' 'Richelieu," written in 1895, but I nut TtiihliNlifrl nnlfl HV?9 kIiobpi! tliA in. r . fluences of Scott's historical romances, a species of fiction which lie thenceforth cultivated almost exclusively. It met with considerable success, and encouraged the author lo pursue a literary career. "Richelieu" w.is followed by "Damley" and "Do L'Orme," "Philip Augustus," "Mary ol Burgundy." and a long list of other romances coming down to the present time, in the composition of which the author has generally drawn his principal scenes and incidents from history, although he has given them a coloring not always in accordance with historical truth. In spite of a monotony of tone and a repetition of incident, his works havo been widely read in England and the United States, and the earlier ones are regarded as standard novels. The list of original works of all descriptions published tinder aliis name amounts at present to nearly 80, in over 190 volumes, the last being "The Cavalier," (1859); an instance of literary fecundity perhaps without a parallel in any other author who has written the English language. HU method of composition was by dictation to an amanuensis. Among his works are several volumes of poetry, and many of history and biography, including the "History of Chivalry," and lives of Charlemagne, Richard Cueur de Lion, Henry IV. of France, and touis XIV., written in a popular style. About 1850 he removed to the United States with his family, fixing his residence in StockhridgCj Mass. In 1854 he was appointed British Consul at Venice. Amoi the novel suggested by his experiences of American life and history are "Ticonderona" f 1854) ahd the "The Old Dominion" ( I85S ) A collected edition of his works, commencing in 1 844, has been publUhed in London, and of nearly all his novels cheap reprints have appeared in the Uni'ed States. , , The Statesman republishes without comment the views of Kosident BUchsnanrta stated in his annual message at the commence ment of the present session, the President says: ''I cordially congratulate you upon the fl nal settlement, by the Supreme Court of the United States, of the question ol slavery in the Territories, which had presented an aspect so truly lornii liHle at the commencement of my administration. 'Ibe right has been eatablishnd of every citizen to take hia property of any kind, including slaves, into the common Territorit f belonging equally to all the State of the confederacy, and to hava it protected there under the Federal Constl. tution. Neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature nor any human power baa Any Authority to annul or impair this vested right. The supreme judicial tribunal ol the country, which i a eo-otdibate branch of Government, has sanctioned anil ifijrtiied these principles of constitutional law, So manifestly just in themaelvee, and so well eaicalated to pro'mtU peace and harmony among lbs States.'' ' i MWi I ,:.r f (KT A lady, 60 years of age, eloped from BuQVc.wlth a hack driver, arrived in Albany, was arrested" and sent back Botami, Ohio, July id, i860. Mr. Eoiroa: ' ' ' " I do not krl'ow that it la right for us' to rt j lice over th' downfall of oilr advera-'. ries, hut it i tt Terjr difficult matter to re- strain a smile at the awkward Jilema in hlch the Democracy have ricxn nlnrnl l, j r 1 the aciiOn or their delegates at Baltimore. They w-re con"iderabiy disheartened after the gr..nd iizzie at tharltstun. but tbtn their t spirits were buoyed tip with the hope i.iL .i;rt - - lit. it . ,. . jliftt thtir differ, nces would -si! be recon ciled af Baltimore, and that they would hoou he at well united and harmonious as in loriuer days when their battle cry was a sure presage, or Victory. But when they learned that this Convention instead of uniting and harmonizing the various eltmenis of discord, bad only widened the breach, their last hope was gone, and a' more disheartened and spiritless set of fellows you never saw exhibited. There was not enough ambition sb ut them,, ev;n to nttenipt a ratification of eithtr I nomina ioii, and had they made the effort it would have proven a failure: for there was Lot life or animation sufficient to have got enough together for a corporals guard. A m ji riiy are still wavering, tbey have no confidence in Douglas and at the same time are loath lo support Breckenridge be cause he is not the nominee of the regular-. Democratic Convention. How tbey will, Ultimately decide the matter i's difficult to determine, for they are extremely cautioue about expressing their views, but from' what information I have been enabled to ga her from various sources I am inclined " to believe that Breckenridge will poll ai large a vote in Brown Tp., as any candidate except our honest Old Rail-Splitter,' whom many of our democratic friends ad-mil will be the next President and for whom many of them will cast their totes. The Republicans were never in a better condition for an efficient aud successful campaign than at the present time; with a Standard Bearer who is emphatically one of the people and who has by his honesty and untiring energy ard persevere-ance elevated himself from a common day laborer to the highest position within the reach of man, and whose ability and hon esty of purpose is unquestioned even by his opponents. We feel that vietory must inevitably perch upon our Banners, unless we prove rebreaht to our duty; and by su- pineness and inactivity permit the enemy to roD us ot an otherwise easy victory. Unlike our opponents we are not eon-, tending merely for the honors or spoils of office, but for long oherishefl principles' which we as well as ihe founders of our government have always .held as sacred and which every honest man must admi' are right and just and if faithfully carried out would bring about a greet reformation' in the affairs of our government and re store U to its former efficiency and purity. Woes not every Republican feel that this is an object worth contending for? if so, lei us at woik now, and disserominate our principles and objects among the masses by all the means within qur reach and thus by a strong, united and pe rseverW effort we may save our eountr fmm in,. pending ruin. We must not let the p r. s-ent division and apparent weakness of our enemies throw us off out guard or caua us to reinx our . ttorta; Tor past experience and more recent developments have prov-en that Jwe have to contend with a wilty foe well skilied in all.the machinations of political warfare and unscrupulous. Dough to resort to any means to accomplish our defeat. But with all their skill in political intrigue, if every Republican but do hia duty their defeat is inevitable and thy will receive from the hands of a justly indignant people that condemnation which their former misdeeds so richly merit. . . T..a BROWN. Tie Disgraceful SccKeis itBaltiHiSre-'- The Plug- Uglies Outdone.' - -IProat the-Nov York Uenld.) The political assembly at Baltimore, known as the democratic convention, whoe object is to select a person to fill the high office of Chief Majjiotrale of the Hepublt d and one of whose avowed intentions was to harmonise a quarreling and disunited party, has presented within the past fw days a dismal spectacle of rowdyism and indecency. 'Within that brief period, scenes of violence and personul t ncouhter. hav, been enaoted there which, in point of numbers and inoidents, have outdone Congress. No lees than five digrabeful fights attended with more.-or less serious danger to the parties conBtrned, have taken place between" the dtfegittes' at Baltimore during their short session.' there via" theHoop-eir and Ufndman fight; the Yost and Braa-" nen fight';the Whitney and to'wnsen'a'flghij ' the Kssdall, and liou'gomeiy fight, sod the Clancy and Ludlow fight In most of th'ehe casts blows were given, blohd drawa snd deadly weapons exhibited. When the-tobgnd .the delegate 'hifd 'exhauated the vocabulary of oj? prohrions epithets sad vile language,, they reWd to the tat afid the pistol, covering thimielves wi& blood an'if tjtHrf-Bii)i;.i, . "' ' . .1 . 'I U fit':' li jfv- f: or; and terj feeliug cT humanity. , ' ' " ; ' ' - v-i - t',.' :'.-.- .' ...,-,. ... 'f ' . .1 4. ' we r r - j i

fril I WIT TV M Jl o "Vol. "VI. NEABBB. One, sweetly, solemn thought. Comes to me o'er and o'er; I'm nearer to my home today Than l'vs ever been before. Nearer my father's house Where many mansions be; Nearer the great white throne, Nearer the jasper 8ea. Nearer the bound of life, Where we layoUr burdens down; Nearer leaving my cross, Nearer wearing my crown. But lying darkly betweon, Winding down thro the night, ts that dim unknown stream Which leads at last to light. Father I perfect my trust, Strengthen my feeble faith; Let me leel as if I trod The shore of river death. For even now my feet May stand upon it's brink; I may be nearer my home, Nearer than I think. Neveb despaie. There's gold for the man that will dig it, And peace for the soul ef the seeker There's love's wine for him that will drink it, O'erflowing the golden lipped beaker There's Fame for the brows ol the thinker, If he'll work and struggle to win it Every care-cloud that folds o'er the future May prison rich blessings within it. There's a home for the son of gaunt sorrow, A rest for the worn out and weary, A hope for the pallid dospairing, A light o'er eash path that is dreary; There's no wave so dark but the summit Will breajt into snowy-like whiteness, There's no cloud so black in the heavens But has some rich, folded-up brightness. Tis hard to wade through the deep waters Unseeing the shore that we covet; 'Tis dismal to look for hope's rainbow When black vails of doubt hang above it. But faith's hand can lift up the mountains And give to us liches supernal-She points to the laud ot the prophets, The land of the blessed Eternal. THE BOATMAN'S bAUGHTEH. The fallowing remarkable story las al the interest of romance; yet it is true, and the parties are still living: It was the memorable year of 1814, 'when the allied armies were concentrated about Paris. A young lieutenant of dragbons was engaged with three or four Hungarians, Who, after having received several smart strokes from his sabre managed to send a ball into his shoulder, to pierce his chest with a thrust from a lance, and to leave him for dead on the bank of the river. On the opposite side of the stream, a boatman and bis daughter had been watching this unequal fight with tears of des-paration. But what could an old unarmed man do, or a pretty child of sixteen? However, the soldier for such the boatman was had no sooner seen the officer fall from bis horse, titan he and his f 'daughter rowed msst vigorously for the 'other side. Then, when they deposited the wounded man in their boat, the worthy people crossed the river again, but with faint dope's of Vetfchmg the military hospital hi tfme. "You ha'Ve been hardly treated, my boy," said the old guardsman to him; '"but her am I, who have gorie further still, and come home." The silent and fixed attitude of Lieuten ant 8 , showed the extreme agony of tis pains, and the hardy boatman soon discovered that the blood which was gathering about the wound, on his left side, would shortly terminate bis existence. lt turned to his youthful daughter: f Mary," he said, "you have heard me tell of my brother; he died of just such a Wound ns this here. Well now. had there teen only somebody to suck the hurt, his life would have been saved." The boatman then landed, and went to look for two or three soldiers to help him o carry the officer, leaving his daughter in charge of bira. The girl looked al the sufferer for a ma- taent or two. What" was her emotion when she neard him sigh so deeply, not that he was resigning life in the first flower of his age, but that he should die without a mother'! kiss. 'My mtttherl my dear mother!" said he; 'I din Stboit ' . Her woman's heart told bet 'what be would have said. Her bosom heaved with sympathy, and bet eyen tan over. Then she remembered what her father said; she thought how ber Ancle's life might have been saved. In an instant, quicker than thought, she tore open the officer's coat, and the gent ous girl recalled him to life with her lips. Amid this holy occupation the sound of footsteps was heard, and the blushing heroine fled to the other end of the boat. Judge of her fathers surprise, at be came up with two soldrers, when be saw Lieulen ant 8-, whom he expected to find dead, open his eyes, and. ask for his deliverer. The boatman looked at his child and saw it -all. i The poor girl oamo to biro i with her head bent down. She waa abou l to excuse herself, when her father, embrao iotr ber with entbueialto, Wised ber spirits, aud the officer thanled her in these proph etic words 'You hare saved my life; it belongs to you." After this she tended him, and became his nurse; nothing would be taken but from her hand. No wonder that with such a nurse he at length recovered. Mary was as pretty as she was good. Meanwhile Master Cupid, who is very busy in such cases, gave him another wound; and there was only one way to cure it, so very deep it was. The boatman's daughter became Madame S . Her husband is now, not a simple lieu tenant, but a lieutenant-general, and the boatman's daughter is as elegant and grace. ful a lady as any that you see at court. The Japanese Princes hare At last been inveigled into a church. The Church was Grace Church, New York, the occasion a wedding. The Express says: On Thursday, Charles Seatan, Esq., of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was married to Miss Agatha Eleanor Carnana, the only daughter of a wealthy retired Italian mer chant of this city. The five Princes of the Japanese Embas sy were present at the ceremony, In full costume, and a brilliant crowd of invited guests filled the body of the Church. The princes had expressed a Wish to see these things especially, before leaving the city a funeral, a law suit and a wedding. The funeral and a eourt of law were of 'easy accomplishment, but a redding of the first class, within the georgeous light of Grace Church, and managed by Brown, does not come 'off every day, and the Embassy was in danger of going to sea without hav ing witnessed that interesting spectacle. Of course they were particularly gratified with an invitation to a ceremony where the fashion and intellect of our city were sure to- be represented, and it was re marked generally, that on no other occa sion since their sojourn among us had the Embassy exhibited so much interest, or ap peared to bo so highly pleased. Fortunately for the impression they will carry away of this one of our most impressive ceremonies the young couple were re markable for their fine personal appear ance. The bridal dress was superb as gleaming silk, clouds of lace and snowy flowers could make it; while a group of pretty bridesmaids, in piiik and blue, gave a brilliant effect to to the scene enhanced on every hand by the georgeous surround ings of the building. We believe this is the first occasion on which the Embassy has entered a place of religious worship in America, they expressed themselves surprised and delighted by the beauty of the church, and said that America was a happy country to possess such buildings, where so many beautiful ladies could be seen together. Lincoln's conscientiousness in Boyhood. We havo beard, says the Evansvilie (Ind.) Journal, the following anecdote related of the People's candidate for the Presidency, which shows the love of knowledge, the industry, the conscientiousness and the integrity of the subject of this sketch: It is well know that he lived in Spencer county, above here in Indiana, in his young (fays. He was a hard working lad, and very eager In bis thirst for knowledge. A man named Crawford owned a copy of'Weems' Life of Washington," the only one in the neighborhood. Young Lincoln borrowed that interesting book, (not having money to spare to buy one,) and while reading it, by a Blight negligence lelt it in the wmdow, when a rain storm came up and wet the book so as to ruin it. Young Lincoln lelt very badly, bat Tike an honest boy hi went to Mr. Crawford wftb. the rained book, acknowledged his accounta bility (Or its destruction, and his willingness to make (lue compensation. He said he had no mo"ey but would' work ocrt the value of the book .' Tho'&wrter'of the book said Co him, "Well, Abe, being as it's you, I on't be hard on you. If you Will come over and poll folder for two Jays, i'll let you off." Abe went over accordingly, and pulled fod der the requisite time; and so tall and handy a lad was he, that Crawford required him to pull the fodder off the tallest stocks, while he took the shortest ones himself. This story is told with much gusto by one of our prominent citizens, who ased to know Abe Lincoln in his younger days in Spencer county, and who now since the once hum- bid lad has become the 'choice of a great party for the highest office in the world; regards hirt with strong affection, and supports him with enthusiasm. The principal fact in the proceedings of the Democratic Stale Convention in Mich igan, was the insult offered Gen. Cass. The "Old Publio Functionary," was in the city of Detroit where the Convention was held, and when some one proposed that he should be invi.ed to lake a seat In the Con. vention, the. motion was contemptuously laid Upon the table; A subsequent effort to cause the Convention to offer a common courtesy to Gen. Cass, was Summarily voted down. The reason for this scornful treatment of the venerable statesman of Michigan, b the fact that he is for Breckenridge and Lane." " .,,',( mount vjzsnKroN-, Ad ournment of Corffress. Congress has adjourned after a session of nearly seven months. ' The Houso spent the first two in fruitless efforts to organize; the Democratic factions, North and South, aided by the South Americans, uniting to prevent the election of a Republican Speaker. The two months were devoted by the Southern Democracy to airing their disunion sentiments, taking the Helper Book of a Nolh Carolinian and John Brown for their texts, while the Northern Democrats cheered them on in their treasonable course and gave .them the "material aid" of their votes in protracting the disorganization they unblushingly threatened to make revolutionary. The Republicans, being in a minority, listened as patiently as possible to the disunion tirades, steadily voting against the traitors and their (reason. The President and his Cabinet, knowing full well that the eleotion of a Republican Speaker and the appointment of Republican committees would lay bre corruptions of high officials such as would make Pennsylvania' Avenue from the White Houso to the Capitol a stench in the nostrils rf the People, also resisted such an organization of the House with every possible appliance of place and power. The right at last triumpneo. over me rresiaeni sna ins satraps, and the sceptro of Speaker was: wrested from the disuntomsts. Fair committees were appointed, and the work of needed legislation, so long factibUsly delayed, was commenced and pushed forward in earnest. We will briefly refer to some of the more important legislation of the House of Representatives under Republican leadership. A bill for the admission o' Kansas under the Constitution framed by the people of the long harrass'ed Territory, was passed and sent to tlie Senate, and wickedly defeated by that Democratic body. A Homestead bill of trdly liberal and beneficent provisions a god-send to the honest laborers whether native or adopted, heads of families or young men, and to the country in breaking up the western wilderness and transforming it iiitd fruitful fields was passed by the House and metamorphosed by the Slave Democracy of the Senate into a mere land graduation measure. After three Committees of Conference, the Republicans succeeded in extorting from the Senate majority a Homestead "half loaf," when the President in his hatred of Free labor and Free Homes for the Homeless, killed the bill by the abuse of a constitutional perogative such J as would have cost any European mon- areli the crown and sceptre, then a tariff bill, absolutely demanded by a bankrupt Treasury and the depresed interests of the manufacturing and free labor States, was passed by the House and postponed by the Free f rad'e "lords of'the lash" and their doughface Northern al ies in the Senate. Bills were reported by the Republican committee on Territories in the House to organize the new Territories of the West, and place them within the protection of such governments and laws as Would aid in their rapid population and development, but the Democrats in the House, backed by South American slave allies, strangled earb. and all at their birth. The House committee made every ef fort to prepare and press to favorable ac. tidn a Pacific Riilroad bill, opening a grand Central Railway across the conti nent; but the allied Slave Democracy, urged on by a President and Cabinet with both eyes 'fixed on despoiling Mexico to extend and aggrandize human servitude, defeated all Pacific Railway progress by presistent adhi-ranco to the Southern route or nothing. The House passed a Pacific Telegraph Bill, which for a marvel found favor with the Senate majority; but perhaps it has been throttled by the Veto, or is dying in the President's pocket. A few days wi make public its fate. The iloose did not place the asked for million's of public money in the hands of the Executive to buy Cuba or male war on Mexico; but it did appoint the CoVode committee to investigate official corruption in the high and low places of the Govern ment, a duty which Was fearlessly and sue' eessfully performed, despite Presidential protests and threatened contumacy ot par tisan witnesses. The fraads on the elective franchise in Kansas and elsewhere, the duplicity and perfidy of the Executive, members of his Cabinet, and Democratic members of Congress under Government manipulations, brought to light and placed On record by the CoVbde committed, bared almost entirely on Democratic testimony, are the most flagrant and overwhelming in the history of the Republic. ' They ought, should, and will 'crush any party guilty of malfeasances and corruptions now "fixed facts'! on the Democratic Turn to the Senate labors of (be pro traded session. The Democratic majority have made the party rule potent against all usefttl legislation; the Upshot of their worths.! been id deleft the trfessuni of onio, TiixJU.saDA.Y, the popular branoh of Congress. They spent months in useless debate on a Slave Cudu pi it form for the Democracy, and that perfected, tested from their lnbors. What important measure did the demo crats in the Senate, North or South, originate and curry through? They did raise a John Brown committee expend months of time arid large sums of public money, imprison Thaddeiis Hyatt, attempt to kidnap Sanborn of Massachu- set.s, to inveigle John Brown, Jr., of Ohio and examined a multitude of witnesses, not Gov. Wis j who had the keeping of the infatuated but brave and honest Old Ossa-watomie's carpet-bag of documents, and boasted that he coiild implicate the Republican leaders and party in the Harper's Ferry raid the protracted search and research by the astute Virginia chairman re suiting id the discovery of just nothing at all oii:side of John Brown and his little band of attache 1 followers, who surprised and captured tlie strdigholdof the Old Dominion with a handful ofSharpe's rifUs, pikes, spades, crowb irs, and pickaxes! The Republicans of the Senate and House have deservedly won the approbation of their constituents and the country during the session just closed. They have been faithful to their trusts, the people, the constitution, and the Union Revolutionary Incidents. The hero of the following thrilling story was embodied in the person of a stout blacksmith, but in bis frame, hardened with toil, throbbed as generous an impulse of freedom as ever heat in the bosom of La Fayefe, or around the heart of Mad Anthony Wbj ne. It was h full tide ol the retreat that a follower of the American camp, who had at bast shouldered a cart-whip iu his country's service, was hauling a baggage wagon from the Geld of tialile, while some short distance behind, a body of Continentals were pushing forward with a body of British in pursuit. The wagon had ai lived at a harrow point of tlie by-road leading to the south, where two high banks of rocks and crags sufficient for the passage of the baggage wagons and not an inch more. His eyes were arrested by a stou t, mus cular man, apparently about forty years of age, extended ftt the foot of a tree at the vei-y opening of the pass. He T7as clad in the coarse entire of a mechanic. His coat had been thrown a.-.itle, and with his sleeves rolled up from his muscular arm, he lay eitended on the turf, with his rifle id his grasp; whilu the blood poured in a tdrreut frdm bis tight leg; which was bro-at the knee By a cannon bull. The wagoner's sympathies were aroused at the sight. He would have paUsed in the instant of l,is flight, and placed the wounded man in tho wagon, but the stout hearted hi an relused. "I'l not go in yoiir wagon," he said in his rough way, "but I'll tell you what i ill do. Do you see yonder cherry tree on the (op of the rock that hangs over the road? Do you think yod 'can lift d man of my build up there? For y'oii see neigh bor," continued be, "I neVer meddled with the British Until they came tramping over this Valley: and burned mr house down, and now I'm all riddled to pieces and hain't got more than fifteen minutes in me; but I have three balls in my cartridge box, and so just prop me up against that tree," and I'll give the whole three shots ahd then," exclaimed the blacksmith patriot; "I'll die. The wagoner started his horses ahead and with a sudden effort dragged the wounded man along the sod to the foot of the tree. His face was to the advancing troopers, and while his shattered leg bung over the bank, the wagoner rushed on bis way, and the doomed blacksmith proceeded to coolly load his rifle. Rail Spmttiso asd Woon Cuoppino 11 appears that "Old Abe's" rail splitting is not much ahead of Gen. Joe Lane's exploits. The latter once bad a wood yard at Newburg, Ind , on the Ohio, where, it is said, he nud to cut cord wood. Steaiaboatmen ay, moreover, that the old fellow used to get on board of the steamboats which bought his wood, and while the hands were unloading his wood Dais, he would take a hand at poker, and play a good game. Tbey say "he used to be rnighty hard at poker." So, while Lane is "even" with the rail splitting arrangement, he Is "one better' on poker Cincinnati Commercial. Woman. it re is a fins prVagVtph from the Mahoning Sentinel: Never make use of art honest woman's battie in an improper place, or at an iraf roper titde, or In a mixed company. Never make assertions about her thai yoU think art untrue; allusloos that you leel she hcWelf wo'd blush to hear. When you meet with men Who do not scruple to make use of a woman's name in a reckless manner, shun them, for they are the very worst members of the community men lost to every sense of hon JULY lO, lOGO. !,..,, ,. , J i : No. OO ' . ' ' . . . T ' " ) i mmwmmmmmimmmmmmwmmmwmmmm UI"".V n i wmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmm-imm i i li nun.,t ,'. From the N'uw V'ork Oritur, i, ludiiendent. ) The fall of the Democratic Party. The past we k hns bi'n signal ted by tlie fmul division into irreconcilinMe factions, of the long unite ! and iovt-riiin' democratic party of the Ci.lti d States. j the event was foreseen, afior the failure of the Charleston Convention, and indeed and spoil. It dies because it hsa ce:tsed has been xpoR-d for many months, tho' i to represent the gieut leading principle of its leaders, rehii) on its creat pri'siiur, wi.icli at it milu it assumed to be tht-and on freduent prrb'ertenta in its i islory, rhwnpion ih tios.it ive eouali.y of man which flattered lhf hope, ti'd not despair: of being able to Wunite all iIih c(;iuuins at the last call of the drum, and to prtsen', 1 as in the old days, a formidable fmtitnt the j i . r j v , . i e .1 rfjeniiiL' of the canvas. Intend of this 1 there are now two seta of c mlidntrs in ! and happiness, have been growing in thai Geld, sworn to deadly nn.it j and the j very mind of the mniU which jo long held third may possibly he addod, Ml conipssed ( In i's t,'rasp, and l-e -use that mind ittelf of the fragments of the old Democracy, j now advances and olaims to carry out ideas When friends diff r, and fail to harmonize j of g iv. rnmcnt and social life which shall they benome the most bitter of all haters. : not lie a practical abnegation of the oriyi-This well known truth is forcibly illu-lra- j nal theory represented by the party. The ted by the mutuil denunciations of the ' vitality that animated it in its early days new divisions. has gone out of it. I thas ceased to have stipi icn A. Douglas, of Illinois, and anv bond of union between its parts, but Benjamin Finspa'rick. of Alabama, were the bond of ainbitioii and State plunder, chosen by the m.jority of the Baltimore i tn the despair of its later struggles, it Convention. The latter has -ince, declined j and Herschel V. Johnson, of Georgia, been substituted in liis place. This noirii-! nation represents what may b:f called for distinction, the' anti slavery wirij,' of the1 Democratic party. All iw anti-slavery ! consist! in opposition to the re openi ;g of1 the slave trade, and in denying to Congress! absolute power in enforce the local NUte ' rights of slave property in the Territories This extent of opinion in that direction is entertained in every Southern Stale, and it does not therefore make ihe party a j Northern parly The seceding portion of llm Biiljimore Convention, represents th-.-rx'reme South ern platform, including the Lccotrplon Territorial policy, and absolute protection to slavery and slave property everywhere. It is identical in tl.eory with the Richmond Conveniion, which declared, when it assembled, that it had nothing to add to or to take from the platform of the majority announced at Charleston. The candidates of this section are John C. Breckcnridge of Kentucky, and Joseph Lane of Ore- Sr" : To an impartial eye, regarding facts and all grounds of judgment in their apparent character, the defeat of the Democratic pnrty in its divisions and as a whole, is hardly less than a forgone conclusion. The Opposition, which failed in 1856 by its own distractions, is now united, confident, and full of energy. The power which has heretofore been deciding terra in our elections the patronage of the existing Government will be em ployed against the strongest wihg of the Democratic partv. and in favor of a minor branch which has no visible chanbe of success in the conflict, the country is therefore prepared to see the administra tion of the Federal Government pass into new hands'. This great event, the fall of ihe Poliif- cal Coloef us which has governed the country (essentially so) for nearly forty years, ought lb' be appreciated in its real character. It is nothing less than one of those civil revolutions which determine the fu lure destiny of nations. In other times ahd countries it would have been a revol ution of violence. : We are saved froth that by the perpetual free Vent of political passions, ahd by the Commerce; the Ar s, and the Christianity of the age. The Democratic Party came into power wiih the advent of Andrew Jaeks'-n. then, I the men of the revoluiionaiy period pas sed away. Several great questions of po' icy had grown into consequence, among which were the National Bank and the Protective system. Then was set ie action that intense popularism which, being wrought up to a high pilch, has kept the party ever since in a stale of prodigious muscular vigor and despotic ascendancy. Foreign emigration became one of its principal terms. Foreigners fought at the polls ahd were rewarded Uh the government patronage. "Rotation in office," "oppression of labor," and "pirvileged monopolies," were expressions well suited in the mouths Of damagogites to flatter the "mob;" and the mob became the makewightin the pseudo-democratic system. We are not using these terms in a party spirit, or sense, but simply reciting facts. And we do not quarrel with1 them. Looking back over the wonderful career of the Democratic Party, we are grateful to it for its servioe in demonstrating its own theory with perfect honesty and boldness. It stands alone in the history of all States. No such masterly popular development, no such long continued display of popular forces, can be found in any other extant recoVd. The perfection of its internal discipline, toe skill of its managers, the Uncompromising boldness of its theories, the wholeness of its faith in the popular mass-ess, its overwhelming rallies after defeat, its signal reparations of disasters and its long tenure of power these, and many other characteristic features, mark ft as thv- grandest iimi it. nation of pojiularism that tliu world lift' -e m 1 1 is not fiuinir iiiat such a party should KO to jjlave wi'liuiit a Ktrrnoh. I' b-ciinc drunk with iuon success, Hud odr- nifiicd by its own success, snd corrupted I by its own iMisuies of State palromge and thr imlefeaMuilily of popular rights, I aiiin-t (ho other pirty iti the country which had le's faitu in the extreme popu- lur system It dii-a because the true ele-' . i . c f ,1 !..:i I men's and terms of freedom, civilization caught at the miserable fallacy in politic and moi uls. of attempting to extend and strengthen slavery by the mere force of outward administration. It has not been able to see tlmi Shivery, like Popery, like Mohammedanism, like Republicanism, and even PiotesiHiiii ni, is in the body of the world's movement, and must abide its hie; A silo to al lei -'lust to dust.' We announced tie; death of Geo. P R James, the novelist, two days since. M . James was bom in London in 1801 When. a boy he manifested decided littrary tastes, and became an anonymous contributor to the magazines. Some of his productions having come under ihe notice of Washing ton Iivn, James was urged by him lo attempt a work of more importance. Thus tncuiaged, he produced in 1822 a life of lEdwarklhe Black Piince, the first book ! bearing his name. liis first essay ns a I novelist' 'Richelieu," written in 1895, but I nut TtiihliNlifrl nnlfl HV?9 kIiobpi! tliA in. r . fluences of Scott's historical romances, a species of fiction which lie thenceforth cultivated almost exclusively. It met with considerable success, and encouraged the author lo pursue a literary career. "Richelieu" w.is followed by "Damley" and "Do L'Orme," "Philip Augustus," "Mary ol Burgundy." and a long list of other romances coming down to the present time, in the composition of which the author has generally drawn his principal scenes and incidents from history, although he has given them a coloring not always in accordance with historical truth. In spite of a monotony of tone and a repetition of incident, his works havo been widely read in England and the United States, and the earlier ones are regarded as standard novels. The list of original works of all descriptions published tinder aliis name amounts at present to nearly 80, in over 190 volumes, the last being "The Cavalier," (1859); an instance of literary fecundity perhaps without a parallel in any other author who has written the English language. HU method of composition was by dictation to an amanuensis. Among his works are several volumes of poetry, and many of history and biography, including the "History of Chivalry," and lives of Charlemagne, Richard Cueur de Lion, Henry IV. of France, and touis XIV., written in a popular style. About 1850 he removed to the United States with his family, fixing his residence in StockhridgCj Mass. In 1854 he was appointed British Consul at Venice. Amoi the novel suggested by his experiences of American life and history are "Ticonderona" f 1854) ahd the "The Old Dominion" ( I85S ) A collected edition of his works, commencing in 1 844, has been publUhed in London, and of nearly all his novels cheap reprints have appeared in the Uni'ed States. , , The Statesman republishes without comment the views of Kosident BUchsnanrta stated in his annual message at the commence ment of the present session, the President says: ''I cordially congratulate you upon the fl nal settlement, by the Supreme Court of the United States, of the question ol slavery in the Territories, which had presented an aspect so truly lornii liHle at the commencement of my administration. 'Ibe right has been eatablishnd of every citizen to take hia property of any kind, including slaves, into the common Territorit f belonging equally to all the State of the confederacy, and to hava it protected there under the Federal Constl. tution. Neither Congress nor a Territorial Legislature nor any human power baa Any Authority to annul or impair this vested right. The supreme judicial tribunal ol the country, which i a eo-otdibate branch of Government, has sanctioned anil ifijrtiied these principles of constitutional law, So manifestly just in themaelvee, and so well eaicalated to pro'mtU peace and harmony among lbs States.'' ' i MWi I ,:.r f (KT A lady, 60 years of age, eloped from BuQVc.wlth a hack driver, arrived in Albany, was arrested" and sent back Botami, Ohio, July id, i860. Mr. Eoiroa: ' ' ' " I do not krl'ow that it la right for us' to rt j lice over th' downfall of oilr advera-'. ries, hut it i tt Terjr difficult matter to re- strain a smile at the awkward Jilema in hlch the Democracy have ricxn nlnrnl l, j r 1 the aciiOn or their delegates at Baltimore. They w-re con"iderabiy disheartened after the gr..nd iizzie at tharltstun. but tbtn their t spirits were buoyed tip with the hope i.iL .i;rt - - lit. it . ,. . jliftt thtir differ, nces would -si! be recon ciled af Baltimore, and that they would hoou he at well united and harmonious as in loriuer days when their battle cry was a sure presage, or Victory. But when they learned that this Convention instead of uniting and harmonizing the various eltmenis of discord, bad only widened the breach, their last hope was gone, and a' more disheartened and spiritless set of fellows you never saw exhibited. There was not enough ambition sb ut them,, ev;n to nttenipt a ratification of eithtr I nomina ioii, and had they made the effort it would have proven a failure: for there was Lot life or animation sufficient to have got enough together for a corporals guard. A m ji riiy are still wavering, tbey have no confidence in Douglas and at the same time are loath lo support Breckenridge be cause he is not the nominee of the regular-. Democratic Convention. How tbey will, Ultimately decide the matter i's difficult to determine, for they are extremely cautioue about expressing their views, but from' what information I have been enabled to ga her from various sources I am inclined " to believe that Breckenridge will poll ai large a vote in Brown Tp., as any candidate except our honest Old Rail-Splitter,' whom many of our democratic friends ad-mil will be the next President and for whom many of them will cast their totes. The Republicans were never in a better condition for an efficient aud successful campaign than at the present time; with a Standard Bearer who is emphatically one of the people and who has by his honesty and untiring energy ard persevere-ance elevated himself from a common day laborer to the highest position within the reach of man, and whose ability and hon esty of purpose is unquestioned even by his opponents. We feel that vietory must inevitably perch upon our Banners, unless we prove rebreaht to our duty; and by su- pineness and inactivity permit the enemy to roD us ot an otherwise easy victory. Unlike our opponents we are not eon-, tending merely for the honors or spoils of office, but for long oherishefl principles' which we as well as ihe founders of our government have always .held as sacred and which every honest man must admi' are right and just and if faithfully carried out would bring about a greet reformation' in the affairs of our government and re store U to its former efficiency and purity. Woes not every Republican feel that this is an object worth contending for? if so, lei us at woik now, and disserominate our principles and objects among the masses by all the means within qur reach and thus by a strong, united and pe rseverW effort we may save our eountr fmm in,. pending ruin. We must not let the p r. s-ent division and apparent weakness of our enemies throw us off out guard or caua us to reinx our . ttorta; Tor past experience and more recent developments have prov-en that Jwe have to contend with a wilty foe well skilied in all.the machinations of political warfare and unscrupulous. Dough to resort to any means to accomplish our defeat. But with all their skill in political intrigue, if every Republican but do hia duty their defeat is inevitable and thy will receive from the hands of a justly indignant people that condemnation which their former misdeeds so richly merit. . . T..a BROWN. Tie Disgraceful SccKeis itBaltiHiSre-'- The Plug- Uglies Outdone.' - -IProat the-Nov York Uenld.) The political assembly at Baltimore, known as the democratic convention, whoe object is to select a person to fill the high office of Chief Majjiotrale of the Hepublt d and one of whose avowed intentions was to harmonise a quarreling and disunited party, has presented within the past fw days a dismal spectacle of rowdyism and indecency. 'Within that brief period, scenes of violence and personul t ncouhter. hav, been enaoted there which, in point of numbers and inoidents, have outdone Congress. No lees than five digrabeful fights attended with more.-or less serious danger to the parties conBtrned, have taken place between" the dtfegittes' at Baltimore during their short session.' there via" theHoop-eir and Ufndman fight; the Yost and Braa-" nen fight';the Whitney and to'wnsen'a'flghij ' the Kssdall, and liou'gomeiy fight, sod the Clancy and Ludlow fight In most of th'ehe casts blows were given, blohd drawa snd deadly weapons exhibited. When the-tobgnd .the delegate 'hifd 'exhauated the vocabulary of oj? prohrions epithets sad vile language,, they reWd to the tat afid the pistol, covering thimielves wi& blood an'if tjtHrf-Bii)i;.i, . "' ' . .1 . 'I U fit':' li jfv- f: or; and terj feeliug cT humanity. , ' ' " ; ' ' - v-i - t',.' :'.-.- .' ...,-,. ... 'f ' . .1 4. ' we r r - j i